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...Silva said that he is not a supporter of rent protections, which were abolished in Cambridge after a 1994 state referendum...
Still, the effects of the abolition of rent control following a 1994 state referendum have remained a concern for some voters...
...lads and lasses have spoken: Scotland will have a parliament. With a resounding 74.2 percent voting in favor, Scotland will get a legislature of its own in 2000, and with 63.4 percent in favor, that parliament will have the power to tax its new constituents. But though Thursday's referendum was timed to the 700-year anniversary of a William Wallace rout of the British, TIME's London Bureau Chief Barry Hillenbrand says the landmark shift is a lot closer to states' rights than revolution. "Years from now, you might be arguing that this was the first domino toward independence...
...Tony Blair and Labor were crowing Friday about "devolution": This referendum was another way to move government out of London. Yet the Scottish Nationalist Party was jubilant too, billing the vote as a major step towards independence. It has already been a remarkable compromise...
...voter referendum approved just that kind of arrangement for Pittsburgh, Pa., but not before a prolonged local struggle, federal intervention and one highly publicized death nearby. Critics of the department say that by the late 1980s, police were out of control. "They were taking people off the street with absolutely no due process and throwing them in jail," says A.C.L.U. attorney Timothy O'Brien. At the same time, virtually every complaint that came before the department's internal-affairs division was dismissed...